Sagar Handa vs Surbhi Khanna - 2024 Supreme(P&H) 1302

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2024 Supreme(P&H) 1302

SUMEET GOEL
Sagar Handa – Appellant
Versus
Surbhi Khanna – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : Ms. Ravisha Mahajan Adv.
For the Respondent: Mr. Inder Preet Singh Adv.

JUDGMENT :

Mr. Sumeet Goel, J.:-

Present revision petition has been preferred against the order dated 01.09.2023 passed by the Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Amritsar (hereinafter to be referred as the ‘concerned Family Court’) praying for setting-aside of the said order. Vide the impugned order; the respondent-wife has been awarded interim maintenance at the rate of Rs.10,000/- per month to be paid by the petitioner-husband (herein) from the date of the institution of the application alongwith litigation expenses to the tune of Rs.5500/-. The respondent (herein) had filed a petition, under Section 125 of Cr.P.C., 1973 before the Family Court, stating that she is the wife of the petitioner (herein) and is unable to maintain herself and hence the interim maintenance ought to be awarded to her.

2. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner has iterated that the respondent-wife has filed an application before the Family Court, seeking interim maintenance, by projecting false narrative which is contrary to the record. It has been further iterated that the respondent has very conveniently concealed her true financial status which constitutes gross abuse of the process of the C

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